My Oracle Support Banner

Connecting Using: sqlplus "/ as sysdba" Fails with ORA-12547 with Lower Ulimit Setting (Doc ID 878375.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 07, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 8.1.7.0 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)
Sun Solaris SPARC (64-bit)


Symptoms

$sqlplus "/ as sysdba" fails with ORA-12547 .

You may have more than one database up and running under the same oracle home . When you try to bring up a database while connecting as "/ as sysdba" , the BEQ connection fails with ORA-12547 .

You might see significant delay after the sqlplus "/ as sysdba" is fired and before ORA/TNS-12547 occurs.

The problem still persists even after performing $relink all  . No error/warning messages in the OS logs.

sqlnet client trace may show the following error stack :

Cause

To view full details, sign in with your My Oracle Support account.

Don't have a My Oracle Support account? Click to get started!


In this Document
Symptoms
Cause
Solution

My Oracle Support provides customers with access to over a million knowledge articles and a vibrant support community of peers and Oracle experts.